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• Universal signs TikTok deal allowing artists back on platform

  02-05-2024 16:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Music group pulled content amid row over issues such as deepfake AI-generated music and artists’ compensationTikTok and Universal Music Group have reached a deal that will allow songs and artists from its labels including Olivia Rodrigo and Drake to return to the video-sharing app.The world’s largest music company began pulling content from TikTok in February after falling out with it over issues including artist compensation and the use of artificial intelligence-generated music on
  
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• ‘Who wants to stare at a computer?’ Pop duo the Lemon Twigs on the joys of analogue life

  02-05-2024 16:11 via theguardian.com
  
  As teenagers, the New York brothers swiftly rose to become retro pop darlings – until they weren’t. Now older, wiser and taking inspiration from the travails of their family, they’re making their best music yetThe Lemon Twigs are deep in one of the great songwriting grooves of the 21st century. Or is it the previous century? Their new album, A Dream is All We Know, is a fabulous pop confection that magically transports the listener to the idyll of Abbey Road studios in 1966, if
  
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• ‘Thekla runs a tight ship’: Bristol’s floating venue marks 40 years at dock

  02-05-2024 14:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Vessel which has hosted acts from Pulp to Stormzy to celebrate anniversary with series of shows, exhibition and bookIt started life as a cargo ship transporting timber around the Baltic Sea, but for the last four decades it has been moored in the Mud Dock area of Bristol’s floating harbour, hosting music acts from Pulp to Stormzy, helping launch the city’s drum‘n’bass and trip-hop scenes and providing a bobbing canvas for the street artist Banksy.Thekla, one of south-west
  
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• ‘Musical soulmates’: the extraordinary story of The Piano sensation Lucy and her doting teacher

  02-05-2024 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Lucy Illingworth wowed audiences on the TV talent show, but her journey started as a toddler with dedicated tutor Daniel Bath. Now, a documentary shows how they did it – and the shocking moment a royal disaster almost stopped themLucy Illingworth is the breakout star of the ivory-tinkling TV talent show The Piano. When the teenager, who is blind and neurodivergent, sat down at Leeds railway station, then 13, her rendition of Chopin’s Nocturne in B-flat minor brought rush-hour crowds
  
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• Duane Eddy’s twang remains one of rock’n’roll’s greatest sounds

  02-05-2024 11:42 via theguardian.com
  
  The late guitarist was rightly ubiquitous in the late 1950s thanks to his otherworldly sound, earning admirers from Bruce Springsteen to John PeelYou could get the measure of Duane Eddy – who has died aged 86 – from a selection of his album titles: Have “Twangy” Guitar Will Travel (1958, his debut), The “Twangs” the “Thang” (1959), $1,000,000.00 Worth of Twang (1960, with Volume 2 in 1962), Twistin’ ’n’ Twangin (1962), “Twan
  
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• Richard Tandy, ELO keyboardist who shaped band’s futuristic sound, dies aged 76

  02-05-2024 02:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Electric Light Orchestra leader Jeff Lynne announces death of ‘remarkable musician and friend’ who played everything from the Minimoog to the ClavinetRichard Tandy, the keyboardist in Electric Light Orchestra who shaped much of the British rock band’s sound, has died aged 76.His death was announced by the ELO leader Jeff Lynne, who wrote on social media: “He was a remarkable musician and friend and I’ll cherish the lifetime of memories we had together.” A caus
  
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• Olivia Rodrigo gigs called off as chaos continues at Manchester’s Co-op Live

  02-05-2024 00:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Postponements come hours after queueing fans were turned away from A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie gig on Wednesday eveningThe troubled Co-op Live arena has postponed Olivia Rodrigo’s concerts as part of her Guts world tour because of a “technical issue”, hours after the last-minute cancellation of its opening concert for the third time.Two hours after announcing that A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie would no longer be performing, the venue confirmed that Rodrigo’s concerts on 3 and 4 May h
  
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